Author: Laura Fry
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The Best Thing
The only thing better than sending a box of stuff to a magazine? Is getting it back again. (No previews – you’ll see it soon enough.) I’ve been writing articles for WEFT for, um, a year now. They keep asking me if I’m interested in doing more and guess what? I *am*! 😀 It…
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Tugging at the Thread
Recently a ‘new’ weaver asked about teaching others in an ‘informal’ setting. I thought about that for a while and decided that, with an ‘informal’ setting, it doesn’t really matter where you begin. The craft is so huge, the complexity vast, the ‘it depends’ questions never ending – you just need to jump in…
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Father’s Day
I know I’ve been thinking about my dad a lot. And my brother. This is probably my favourite photo of the 3 of us together. I was 10, my brother would have been 3.5. Dad was never comfortable being ‘in charge’ of us kids, but needs must and mom was having minor surgery so…
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Themes
I think I’ve decided on this for the next warp. Still mulling over my colour options, which are, shall we say, limited? Never mind. This is a re-take of an idea I had a couple years ago when I was working through that ‘advancing twill block’ structure – although I didn’t realize it until…
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I Can See Clearly (or not)
This is a screen shot I just took from earth null school website. All that yellow? That’s smoke from wildfires. And we are under the leading edge of it in that little circle. This morning I saw a comment on social media from someone in Manitoba. They were shocked – shocked! – that the…
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Change One Thing
When I say ‘change one thing, everything can change’ some people don’t realize that they are actually changing anything when they change brands of yarn. Or if they don’t understand that the way yarn has been spun will impact the quality of their cloth. Or the experience during weaving. Let’s look at some yarn…
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Making Changes
This is the potential ‘right’ side of the cloth currently on the loom. Of course I did not enter the colours I used – I can visualize what that will look like, well enough, plus I can now look ‘under’ the web to see them more clearly. But, overall, I’m pleased enough with this.…
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Making Changes
This is the potential ‘right’ side of the cloth currently on the loom. Of course I did not enter the colours I used – I can visualize what that will look like, well enough, plus I can now look ‘under’ the web to see them more clearly. But, overall, I’m pleased enough with this.…
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Making Changes
This is the potential ‘right’ side of the cloth currently on the loom. Of course I did not enter the colours I used – I can visualize what that will look like, well enough, plus I can now look ‘under’ the web to see them more clearly. But, overall, I’m pleased enough with this.…
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June 6
I have very few photographs of my dad, most of them blurry ‘snaps’. This studio portrait is one of the few I have. (The inset is one of those blurry ‘snaps’ taken when he was around 10 years old.) For the past few years I’ve pulled this photo out, again and again, wondering what…